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Some aspects of Ratooning in Sugarcane

Volume : 36
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 28 - 39
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1.Introduction. Ratooning Sugarcane is the growing of successive crops from one year's planting after every harvest and is practised in many of the sugarcanegrowing countries of the world.as for example in Louisiana, Mauritius,Cubs West Indies,British Guiana and in Hawaii islands.In India the practice was not common due mainly to lak of suitable varieties but the position has now changed.with the introduction of hardy seedling canes from Coimbatore.It has now become a general practice in many places to ratoon canes.In places like Valavanur in South Arcot District of this Province even seventh and eighth ratoon crops are being taken with the variety Co 281.

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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